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1.		Panama Fever: The Battle to Build the Canal from Hutchinson Price: £14.00 Customer Review: I loved this book. The Panama Canal story is an extraordinary, epic tale and Matthew Parker's marvellous account more than does it justice. The book is written with a sure feel for the grand sweep of history: the unprecedented engineering challenge, the daunting geography of the mountainous... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		The Age of Roosevelt: The Politics of Upheaval 1933-1936 Vol 3: 1935-1936, the Age of Roosevelt: The Politics of Upheaval 1933-1936 Vol 3 (The Age of Roosevelt) from Houghton Mifflin Price: £10.95	Click here for more information

3.		Franklin D.Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-45 (Oxford Paperbacks) from OUP USA Price: £19.99	Click here for more information

4.		A Crack in the Edge of the World: The Great American Earthquake of 1906 from Viking Customer Review: Given that almost half of the book is devoted to an exploration of the world's geology - particularly the New Geology of plate tectonics and how it relates to the phenomenon of earthquakes - you might expect A Crack in the Edge of the World to be on the dry side; but not at all. I found it riveting,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920 from The University of North Carolina Press Price: £20.42	Click here for more information

6.		The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas,1836-1916 from University of Illinois Press Price: £24.95	Click here for more information

7.		Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in America, 1900-32 from Verso Books Price: £10.56 Customer Review: Winston James' Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia will clarify our understanding of Afro-Caribbean migrants in the US. It sheds more light on not just Hispanics but non-Hispanics as well. His thesis is expository. He explains the "scale and determinants of Caribbean migration to the United... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		So Terrible a Storm: The Epic Story of the Sailors and Ships in Lake Superior's Deadly 1905 Thanksgiving Gale from Motorbooks International Price: £9.89	Click here for more information

9.		The Gangs of New Orleans: An Informal History of the French Quarter Underworld from Arrow Books Ltd Price: £7.99 Customer Review: Ignore the title: this book covers more than just the gangs. The founding of New Orleans is described in detail followed by histories of the bordellos, the history of slavery and the culture of the slaves, the history of voodoo in the city via diversions into riverboat gambling and the post-Civil... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		The River of Doubt from Little, Brown Price: £9.57 Customer Review: A fantastic adventure read which greatly improved my knowledge of the Amazon ,its history ,geography flora and fauna. I also learned a lot about old Teddy himself-strongly recommended.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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